Their treatment, “Behavioral Day Treatment and Contingency Managed Housing and Work Therapy,” is a program for adults who are homeless and have co-occurring substance use and nonpsychotic mental disorders. Based on therapeutic goals management, the treatment helps participants to stop using substances through support and contingencies, and it provides them with housing and work therapy.

Being included in this registry means the treatment has been codified as a best practice, has passed rigorous peer critique, is now easily accessible to social and clinical service agencies for implementation and meets the criteria for an evidence-based practice required for HHS research, evaluation, and grant funding.

Improvements in motor function and memory suggest human neurodevelopmental disorders may be amenable to treatment, even after onset of symptoms. According to a researcher, neurodevelopmental disorders with intellectual disability and autism may not need to last a lifetime.

A UAB physician will co-chair a steering committee of global cystic fibrosis experts and clinical trial investigators to support the design, conduct and execution of the triple combination pivotal study program.

The International Space Station carries a bit of Birmingham on board — high-tech freezers designed and built by the UAB School of Engineering to protect vital scientific experiments. From their mini mission control, staff and students describe the unique challenges of keeping NASA science on ice for more than 90 space missions.